Saturday, November 1, 2008

Jon Stewart: "You know what's interesting, though? You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show."

Rachel Maddow has doubled the audience for a cable news channel's 9 p.m. hour in a matter of days. Maddow has made MSNBC competitive in that time slot for the first time in a decade. The channel at that hour has an average viewership of 1.7 million since she started on Sept. 8, compared with 800,000 before.